Does the availability of an abundance of spectacularly talented engineers leave room for such dramatically poor interpretations?
Prestigious universities in Europe and America have been attracting people from all over the globe for over 100 years now. This movement of spectacularly talented people towards these destinations to study extremely demanding subjects at undergraduate and graduate levels has only gained more momentum and become even more intense since the start of at least the 1950s. Since the start of at least the 1950s, more youngsters than ever before have started to try to secure a spot at such prestigious institutions, making the selection process even more stringent for the local populations.
Despite the presence of universities like MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Princeton, Chalmers, Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, Technical University of Munich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, LMU Munich, University of California, Berkeley, that have remarkably stringent entrance criteria and have been busy accepting increasingly greater number of international students for over 70 years now, the show and resulting statistics put on display by Formula 1 circus have started to feel increasingly preposterous. With such outstandingly, remarkably demanding, sought-after, and known for their excellence in teaching standards universities imparting technical knowledge to some of the finest minds in various fields of engineering from all over the globe, only three or so teams, for example, Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari, are succeeding in finding the people capable of interpreting the technical specifications issued by the F1 governing body truly successfully: preposterous Stuff. The talent pool has only increased in the last 70 years and getting admission at such immensely demanding places ongotten extraordinarily difficult, hence making the graduates with the engineering and scientific knowledge only more capable.
With such excellent universities producing hundreds of spectacularly talented students with the requisite knowledge and ability to interpret those specifications extremely precisely, the differences in performances made available to those interested in, or who were once interested in, the sport are extremely pronounced to accept as an intelligent person. With specifications describing almost every aspect of the car design to the very last detail, it becomes impossible to accept that a person like Michael Schumacher or Lewis Hamilton can start from 9th or 10th position on the gird, and from that starting position, then win the race and in the process turn every other car manufacturer into a spectator: simply unacceptable.
Although the precise and elaborate nature of Formula 1’s specifications leaves extremely little room for major differences in performances, once or twice, Michael Schumacher was able to win from 16th or 18th on the grid. In Formula 1, it is a recurring theme that the cars of some poor-performing teams even get lapped by the cars of the top-ranking teams. With the availability of the resources, both financial and technical — trust me, there is no dearth of outstanding universities and spectacularly talented engineering graduates — can interpreting engineering specifications that poorly be considered a possibility by an intelligent person? In conclusion, F1 is a mere charade.
To make matters worse for the people running the Formula 1 circus, Red Bull Racing and Alpha Tauri are both owned by the same large group — which has only one meaning in my book: precisely described and defined standards for the larger group — and both Red Bull Racing and Alpha Tauri are using Honda’s engines. Red Bull Racing has already won both the titles — the driver’s title and constructor’s title — whereas Alpha Tauri is languishing 10nth in the standings. Can two teams owned by the same company and using the same engine manufacturer’s engines have such a humongous gap in performance? Utterly unbelievable from the point of a mathematics-loving UX expert.
End Periods of Dominance — Lewis Hamilton — Can that even be done when running the affairs decently?
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